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...silver tray and bottles of Bordeaux are among the vivid images...
Staff Writer Richard Stengel, who incorporated the bureaus' vivid reports in his story, immersed himself in books and papers on the subject by criminologists and social scientists. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson supervised the project. Says he: "It was important to amass as much research as possible. Black-on-black violence is a very sensitive subject, one that black leaders are only now willing to talk about." White agrees: "I thought it was time to bring it out of the closet. It's time, long past time, for the killing to stop...
That was not the only way in which Gorbachev gave the impression of being a new type of Kremlin leader. He sprinkled his remarks with knowledgeable but unostentatious references to an American newspaper columnist, Third World poverty and the technology of Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor...
...shrewd, vinegary London barrister named Henry Ayscough, acting on behalf of a duke whose son is believed to be the vanished traveler. Most of the novel unfolds through Ayscough's persistent, painstaking inquiry, and it makes gripping reading indeed, part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama. A vivid gallery of the English underclasses passes under the lawyer's scrutiny. Testimony is offered on London brothel life, moonlit rituals at Stonehenge, witchcraft and an odd prefiguring of science fiction in a cavern beneath the Devon moors...
...canvas and, ergo, the stream of electrons that creates images on the picture tube as paint. Presto, video art, which means scrambling, bending, rearranging or just generally messing around with the picture on TV sets. As practiced by Paik and his followers, this tinkering can lead to anything from vivid static and colorful snow to whimsical sculptures of the video age. When New York's Whitney Museum gave Paik's work a full-scale retrospective in 1982, viewers encountered strange things. There was a battery of television monitors, showing preprogrammed tapes, set behind a bank of aquariums, in which fish...